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Context Italy has a long tradition of cinema. Some of it is important, influential art. And some of it is… not. In particular there’s a whole category among Italian cinema that is made of janky, weird, impressively cheap movies copying Hollywood successes with some odd...

Context Escape from New York is a 1981 sci-fi movie with a cyberpunk atmosphere. A cult classic, it was successful enough to get a sequel (Escape from L.A.) 15 years later. As with other John Carpenter sci-fi films, Escape was an important movie for Generation X nerds. Back then...

Nowadays we’d do things well differently. But heh, these notes remain useful. I think. Powers and Abilities Chow Yun-Fat’s primary power is the ability to mow down mooks by the bucket full. He drops bad guys in such quantities that he makes Dirty Harry look like a...